Updated 9/23: Toonami moves back to midnight due to Adult Swim time change starting Oct 1st

Toonami announced on its Facebook page yesterday that Adult Swim is losing its 8pm hour. As a result of this Toonami will be moving its start time from 11:30 back to midnight. It will not lose any time slots and will remain three and a half hours. The move has nothing to do with Toonami’s ratings, the network was very happy with Toonami’s perfomance at 11:30p. The Adult Swim Time change is what necessitated the push back to midnight as stated by Jason DeMarco.

Update 09/23 @7:18pm C/T: Toonami will be marathoning Parasyte off due to it’s contract with Sentai Filmworks ending the schedule will go back to 12am-3:30am on October 8th. It is unknown at this time what will be replacing Parasyte on October 8th at 3AM which is also the week that One Punch Man will be airing it’s season finale. We’ll share any further updates as they occur.

Are you really airing 3 episodes of Parasyte from 3AM-4… — Yes. Contract is up after that, so we have to show thre… https://t.co/IC81QPsg9n

Note: According to Jason DeMarco it is possible that when Adult Swim goes back to 8pm which usually occurs in January that Toonami could move back to 11:30pm once again, however that lineup is a while away and hasn’t been planned yet.

If Toonami is going back to starting at midnight becaus… — Totally possible but that lineup is a while away and ha… https://t.co/AMBToUbETp